Install Grafna, InfluxDB, Telegraf for Jitsi Video Meet Monitoring on Debian 10

Step 1: Install InfluxDB

apt update && apt install -y gnupg2 curl wget
wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian buster stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
apt update && apt install influxdb -y
systemctl enable --now influxdb
systemctl status influxdb

If you run a firewall (i.e. ufw) on this server, open the port for influxdb and grafana webserver:

ufw allow 8086/tcp
ufw allow 3000/tcp

Step 2: Install Grafana to display stats dashboards

curl https://packages.grafana.com/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
add-apt-repository "deb https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable main"
apt update && apt install grafana -y
systemctl enable --now grafana-server
systemctl status grafana-server

Step 3: Install & configure telegraf

wget -qO- https://repos.influxdata.com/influxdb.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repos.influxdata.com/debian buster stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/influxdb.list
apt update && apt install telegraf -y
mv /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf.original

nano /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf

Enter following contents in telegraf.conf:

[global_tags]

###############################################################################
# GLOBAL #
###############################################################################

[agent]
interval = "10s"
debug = false
hostname = "jitsi_host"
round_interval = true
flush_interval = "10s"
flush_jitter = "0s"
collection_jitter = "0s"
metric_batch_size = 1000
metric_buffer_limit = 10000
quiet = false
logfile = ""
omit_hostname = false

nano /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/jitsi.conf

Enter following contents in jitsi.conf:

###############################################################################
# INPUTS #
###############################################################################

[[inputs.http]]
name_override = "jitsi_stats"
urls = [
"http://116.203.231.172:8080/colibri/stats"
]
data_format = "json"

###############################################################################
# OUTPUTS #
###############################################################################

[[outputs.influxdb]]
urls = ["http://localhost:8086"]
database = "jitsi"
timeout = "0s"
retention_policy = ""

We enable start on boot and start telegraf now on server “jitsi”:

systemctl enable --now telegraf
systemctl status telegraf

(Mind: We will not create a database as Telegraf will create our database if it does not find one)

Server: "jitsi"

Step 4: Adapt Jitsi onfiguration to expose stats

nano /etc/jitsi/videobridge/config

Make sure to configure the jvb options:

JVB_OPTS="--apis=rest,xmpp"

and

nano /etc/jitsi/videobridge/sip-communicator.properties

Here we configure colibri statistics:

org.jitsi.videobridge.ENABLE_STATISTICS=true
org.jitsi.videobridge.STATISTICS_TRANSPORT=muc,colibri

service jitsi-videobridge2 restart

Check output in the terminal on the jitsi server:

curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8080/colibri/stats

Response: {"inactive_endpoints":0,"inactive_conferences":0,"total_ice_succeeded_relayed":0,"total_loss_degraded_participant_seconds":0,"bit_rate_download":0,"muc_clients_connected":1,"total_participants":0,"total_packets_received":0,"rtt_aggregate":0.0,"packet_rate_upload":0,"p2p_conferences":0,"total_loss_limited_participant_seconds":0,"octo_send_bitrate":0,"total_dominant_speaker_changes":0,"receive_only_endpoints":0,"total_colibri_web_socket_messages_received":0,"octo_receive_bitrate":0,"loss_rate_upload":0.0,"version":"2.1.169-ga28eb88e","total_ice_succeeded":0,"total_colibri_web_socket_messages_sent":0,"total_bytes_sent_octo":0,"total_data_channel_messages_received":0,"loss_rate_download":0.0,"total_conference_seconds":0,"bit_rate_upload":0,"total_conferences_completed":0,"octo_conferences":0,"num_eps_no_msg_transport_after_delay":0,"endpoints_sending_video":0,"packet_rate_download":0,"muc_clients_configured":1,"conference_sizes":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"total_packets_sent_octo":0,"conferences_by_video_senders":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"videostreams":0,"jitter_aggregate":0.0,"total_ice_succeeded_tcp":0,"octo_endpoints":0,"current_timestamp":"2020-04-17 23:14:38.468","total_packets_dropped_octo":0,"conferences":0,"participants":0,"largest_conference":0,"total_packets_sent":0,"total_data_channel_messages_sent":0,"total_bytes_received_octo":0,"octo_send_packet_rate":0,"conferences_by_audio_senders":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"total_conferences_created":0,"total_ice_failed":0,"threads":37,"videochannels":0,"total_packets_received_octo":0,"graceful_shutdown":false,"octo_receive_packet_rate":0,"total_bytes_received":0,"rtp_loss":0.0,"total_loss_controlled_participant_seconds":0,"total_partially_failed_conferences":0,"endpoints_sending_audio":0,"total_bytes_sent":0,"mucs_configured":1,"total_failed_conferences":0,"mucs_joined":1}

With this response we see that the rest api responds and can be used for our purpose! To make sure that the colibri rest endpoint can be accessed by telegraf:

ufw allow 8080/tcp

Configure dashboards in Grafana

Open Grafana in browser: http://<Your-IP>:3000 31 and prepare your admin account

Add datasource.

We will add an InfluxDB datasource and set it to be the default.

Name: InfluxDB
Default: On
HTTP URL: http://localhost:8086 14
HTTP Access: Server (default)
Database: jitsi

Download a Dashboard.

https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/11969

A collection of all fields from the jitsi rest api response is available in the json attached for convenience.

Src: https://community.jitsi.org/t/how-to-to-setup-grafana-dashboards-to-monitor-jitsi-my-comprehensive-tutorial-for-the-beginner/38696